THE SANTA MONICA COLLEGE

CORSAIR
SANTA MONICA, CALIFORNIA

VOL XLVIII, NO. 26

MAY I, 1978

Former SMC Math Teacher

Elected Chairman Of Board
BY LAURA LAMBETH

and RICK CIMENT

Corsair Staff Writers

sheet of paper listed two primary

choices: whether to run the college
full bore until bankruptcy, which
would occur by February, 1979, or
to reduce expenditures by 57 per
cent by means of eliminating
programs and asking the faculty to
increase their workload by 40 per
cent while taking a 30 per cent cut
in pay.
The latter approach was adopted

Colin Petrie, former Santa Monica College math instructor, will

head the trustees meetings for the
next year. Approved unanimously
by his colleagues Monday night,
Petrie replaces former chairman
David E. Houtz, who presided for
the last two years. Petrie, elected to
the board last spring, served as
trustee's vice chairman for the last
year.
Petrie has been involved with the
Santa Monica School system since
1946, and has taught at SMC since
1955. He retired in 1974.
BY LAURA LENSON
The trustees chose Ilona Katz, the
Corsair Staff Writer
lone woman trustee, to serve as vice
The Associated Students Comchairperson. Also elected last
mission is postponing applicants'
spring, Mrs. Katz has been a resiinterviews for six leadership
dent of Santa Monica for the last 14 scholarships until it reestablishes
years and a PTA member for 13 the criteria and procedures for the
years.
awards.
In other matters at the trustees
The Commission moved Thursmeeting, the first formal attempt by
day to follow the criteria for all A.S.
the administration to deal with the scholarships, as written in the
staggering financial impact of the
student handbook, except for the
Jarvis Initiative was presented by
A.S. leadership scholarships.
President-Superintendent Richard
According to Herbert E. Roney,
L. Moore.
dean of community services, the
Titled "Jarvis Contingency Plan2.75 grade point average requirening: Decision Options," the single ment for leadership scholarships, as
printed in the student handbook, is
a typographical error.
The required grade point average
is 2.0, he says, and awards have
been made according to that criteria.
A scholarship committee consisting of commissioners Altaf Amlani,
Paul Boylan, Craig Martin, Steve
Rennie and Vikki Shore will conBY CLAIRE F. PLASKOFF
sider which grade point average
Corsair Staff Writer
should be used and bring its concluThe 48th annual graduation exer-

by the board on Moore's recommendation, and he promised to present

to the trustees at their May 15
meeting a more detailed summary
of which programs would be cut
out.

Moore stressed that the cuts

A'ould be made with the basic objective being to "help maximize the
number of students" that could continue to attend SMC.

Commission Concerned

Award Rules Study

drive.
(Photo By Gary Feinstein)

165 Pints Collected

Blood Drive Success

This year's blood drive, held
Thursday and Friday, was the most
successful ever held at Santa Monica College.

"Each successive blood drive at

SMC is better than the last, says
Mrs. Janina Szurley, secretary of
the campus health office.
A total of 165 pints of blood was
donated during the two-day drive.
"Last year's total in April was 132
pints, so we have an increase of 33
pints. This is really very good,"
Mrs. Szurley says.
For the college year a total of 459
pints were donated to the college's
blood bank account with the Red
Cross, Mrs. Szurley reports.
Carol Beckstead, director of the
health office, offered special thanks
to Burger King for its contribution
of hamburgers and cokes to all donors, and to Paul Pace of SMC food
services for supplying apples to
donors in the recent drive.
Those who donated blood included:
Kathleen Aaron, Leslie Abernathy, Steve Alari, Etta Alexander,
Maaza Ambaye, Janice Anderson
and Elaine Avery.
Barbara Barosky, Tina Bartel,
Alonzo Bell, Ellen Bennett, Phyllis
Bernard, Cindy Besich, Kathy Besnier, Michael Blyberg, Pamela
Bowlay-Williams, Richard Burgess
and Linn Bybe.
Sharron Callendar, Richard
Campbell, Carol Carpenter, William Cassell, David Caso, Jody Cattell, Kyung Cha, Beth Colbert,
Stephen Coutts, Dean Currie and
James Cutchall.
Gregory Davis, Dawn Deddo,
Danny Deschenes, Mary Desjardins, Richard Dilgren, Robert
Dobrin, Charles Donaldson, Jeffrey
Early, Arthur Embly and John En-

Today
On Campus
MECHA, as part of its Cinco de
Mayo observance, will present the
UCLA Folklorico, the Teatro
Prlmavera and the singing group,
Primero de Mayo all in the Little
Theatre from 7 to 10 p.m. Admission is free.
MECHA will sponsor a bake sale
in the cafeteria breezeway.

sign and Richard Epps.

Wallace Fitzgerald, Ruth Flexo,

Donald Froehlich, Ronald Froehlich, Jack Fry, Erwin Fruth, Arthur

Gallin, Dorothy Gelvin, Birdie Goree, Marc Gorelnik, Byrl Gray and
Richard Grill.
Tina Haller, Mina Hariri-Vijeh,
Taoheed Hasan, Frank Hoch, Barbara Hoffman, Martina Huber,
Evelyn Hufnagel, Patricia Jackson,
Patricia Jaureglii, Thomas Jayne,
Patricia Jenkins, Kalani Jensen,
Frank Jimison and John Joseph.
Kristie Kanner, Trudy Kanner,
Elizabeth Katz, Davi KHALSA,
George Kim, Ray Kirby, Barbara
Kramer and Patricia Kudo.
Marcy Lascar, Ludwig Laverhass, Matthew Laws, Almeda Lawson, Dick Lazaruk, Carolyn Leacock, Maggie Lear, Kelly Lee,
Young Lee, Arat Lefkovits, Larry
Liberto, Mark Lindemann, Lawrence Lira and Robert Loveless.
Matthew McAllister, Mark
McGuire, David McNeill, Thomas
McNulty, Mark Mammarella, Barbara Martin, Craig Martin, Vianne
Martinez, Richard Masada, Alexander Matson, Alfonso Medellin,
Paul Mendonca, Michael Meric,
Mary Mills, Jan Mitchell, Stephen
Moody, Rose Moya and Daniel Murray.
Mary Norris, Yasushi Otake,
Jane Pace, James Pallares, Tracee
Parker, Ron Pearlman, Carrie
Petrucci, Jeff Piper, Jennifer Prey,
Eugene Prince, Donald Rabe, Klaus
Rathfelder, Harry Redd, Kenneth
Rhodes, M.B. Rhodes, Nathaniel
Rosen and Miriam Rottenberg.
Stacey Sampson, Curtis Sanders,
Alan Santoro, Stephen Scherr, Herbert Schlackman, Gary Schneider,
Jamar Schoessow, Katherine
Shamey, Lorraine Shamey, Gary
Sharp, Susie Shinpo, David Skowron, Elsa Simon, Helen Singleton,
Kelly Slater, George Smice, Ronald
Smith, Stefania Smith, Stephen
Squier, Wallace Stahle, Melissa
Stall and Jonathon Stevenson.
Sherrie Taradash, Colleen Taylor, Menashe Tcabar, Janet Thelden, Cheryl Thomas, Elizabeth
Thunell, Richard Townsend, Robert
Van Scoyk and Vicky Villa.
Craig Webb, Byron Williams,
Helen Williamson, David Witt, Linda Wowereit, Janet Wucher, Mary
Young, liana Zimmerman and Benjamin Zvenia.

Steps To

Graduation
Announced

cises of Santa Monica College will

be held at 5:30 p.m. on Thursday,
June 22, in the Amphitheater.
Members of the summer 1977, fall
1977 and spring 1978 graduating
classes are invited to participate.
Dr. Archie M. Morrison, vice
president of student personnel services, has announced the following
calendar of events leading up to
graduation.
Monday is the day set to sign up

for caps and gowns in the Associated Student business office in the
Humanities Building. The office
will be open on Mondays through
Thursdays from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. and
on Fridays from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Measurements will be taken and a
payment of $3.25 will be collected to
defray cost of cleaning. Deadline for
ordering caps and gowns is Friday,
June 9 at 3 p.m.
Personalized graduation announcements also can be purchased
at the A.S. business office. Deadline
for ordering these announcements
is Tuesday, May 30.
There will be a meeting of
graduating students in the Science
Building, Room 175, on Tuesday,
May 23, at 11 a.m.
At 11 a.m. on Monday, June 19,
graduates will meet in the cafeteria
to pick up caps and gowns. A group
class picture will then be taken in
the Amphitheater. Copies of that
picture may be ordered in the A.S.
business office for $3.75 each on or
before Monday, June 19.
Graduation rehearsal is
scheduled for Thursday, June 22, at
9 a.m., in the Amphitheater. All
graduating students are expected to
attend this rehearsal.
Those students who are unable to
be present for either the meeting on
May 23 or for the rehearsal on June
22 may make special arrangements
for participation in the graduation
through Dr. Morrison's office.

sion to the Commission for action

tomorrow.

The committee also will review

past problems in scholarship procedures and recommend rules for
judging and interviewing scholarship applicants.
The Commission also voted

to

rescind

all motions it made

previously dealing with the conflicting criteria for the A.S. leader
ship scholarships.

Interviews for all A.S. scholarship applicants had been held off
until June 1, but the Commission
moved to proceed with nonleadership scholarship interviews
in response to student's pleas.
Ken Horton, a scholarship applicant, expressed just such a need,
telling the Commission he has been
put in a "bad situation" with the
school to which he is transferring
because of the "undue delay" in
awarding scholarships. Without
word on whether he will receive a
scholarship, he cannot inform the
school of his anticipated financial
situation, he said.

News Briefs

Any student who may have any information pertaining to the

current investigation into the practices of the financial aids office
and the scholarship committee may submit such information, in
writing, to Vikki Shore, commissioner of scholastics in the Amphitheater office. Anonymity will be preserved.
*

The financial aid deadline is May 19. Aid packets are available
from the financial aids office.
*

The Associated Student Body, in conjunction with the California

Community State Government Assembly, will present a "No on
Proposition 13" in the cafeteria board room Wednesday, May 10, at 2
p.m. Representatives have been invited from 24 junior colleges.

Netters Open Playoff

BY GAIL LISSAUER
CorsairStaff Writer

A track that will outlast the runthe incentive of

Santa Monica College's Jogners using it is

Three Win

Scholarships

The Aware Advisory Center has

awarded scholarships to three Santa Monica College students.
Lynne Rodriguez received $lOO
as winner of the top award. Sally
Moore and Pearl Guttenplan were
awarded $5O each as runners up.
In order to be eligible the
students had to be more than 25
years of age and returning to school
to complete their undergraduate
degrees.

This is the first year that the

center has conducted such a
program. The center is located at
the Santa Monica YWCA at 14
Street and Pico Boulevard. It is
open Mondays and Wednesdays
from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and from 7 to
9-p.m.

A-Thon.
The May 7 event, also sponsored
by the Santa Monica Track Club,
offers prizes based on the amount of
money raised by each participant.
According to Brad Zerbe, commissioner of athletics, the JogA-Thon consists of finding sponsors
to pledge a specified amount of
money for each lap the participant
completes within one hour.
Though the occasion is called a
Jog-A-Thon, contestants can run,
jog, or walk their hour. The goal is
to do as many laps possible.

"If you walk it you will do 12-16

laps, if you jog you will do 20-25
laps, and a conditioned runner can
do 30-40 laps in an hour," Zerbe
;xplained.
The funds earned by the joggers
will go towards the purchase of a

new "tartan" track.

Tartan, according to Zerbe, is a
type of polyurethane.
In addition to raising money for
the track, clubs and athletic teams
will be given 10 per cent ,of the
pledged money. They can use the
funds for any purpose they choose.
Sign-up sheets are now available
in the Associated Students office in
the Amphitheater Building.

MAY I, 1978

THE CORSAIR

Commentary

Group Analysis
BY RICK CIMENT
Corsair Staff Writer

Long ago, even before the Beatles, it was established that mankind
tended to form into groups.
History is crowded with groups; events such as the Crusades and

World War II could never have occurred without groups. Not to

mention the Mongol hordes (an horde is a group with no manners).
Indeed, without groups history would be quite boring.
basis for
What determines a group? Almost anything can be the
groups. Space and time are two of the more popular factors.
Space is territory and territory will automatically create a group
as In Bulgaria, where everyone is Bulgarian, or Bangladesh, where
everyone is hungry.
Time also influences one's membership in a group. Men who lived
here 75,000 years ago belonged to Neanderthal man, a welldocumented group. However, the passage of time has all but wiped
Neanderthals, who now surface only occasionally to run for

out

national office.
In fact, both time and space interact to create and then destroy
groups. To be in a downtown bus depot at rush hour makes you a
commuter, but to be in the same place around midnight makes you
only suspicious.
Possibly the only group that has not been influenced by time or
space are the Jews, who seem to have a tough time of it anytime,
anyplace.
The incidence of simultaneous membership in groups cannot be
overlooked. Not only is everyone who lives in Bel Air an Angelino,

they also are rich, another well-documented group.

Simultaneous membership is often indicated by use of hyphens, as
in Hippy-commie-welfare leech, manic-depressive and militaryindustrial complex.
The consummate example of simultaneous membership is the
politician, who is an Irishman on St. Paddy's Day, a jock on opening
day and a debtor on election day. To whom? That well-documented

group, the neanderthal-rich.

Other factors which cause groups to form are common interest
(the Mafia), mutual protection (the Mafia), and trade and commerce
(the Mafia).
Sex also contributes toward the formation of groups. This was
proved to be true be the Shakers, a 19th century religious group who
abstained from sex and became extinct.
One psychologist researching groups believed that man sought out
groups to belong to in order to enhance his own identity and
perpetuate commonly held objectives. The psychologist spent seven
years mingling with groups of every type and size until he was
arrested as a pickpocket.
That groups are every much a fact of life as sliced bread leads one
to assume that they'll be around forever. Sliced bread maybe, but
groups today are challenged by McLuhan's global village, a culturally homogenized world connected by computers, satellites and fast

AMID MUCK, MlREMuck, at left, played by Val Baden joins Mire, played by Ric Burgess, try to convince
(Photo by Gary Feinstein)
Terdie, played by Charles Lacey, to go dirty.

Letters
To The

food outlets.
Only a recent renaissance of group consciousness enables groups
to continue, although some see this as simply a last gasp before the
great guacamole.
The Corsair has learned from a source close to the Inter-Club
Council known only as Deep Club, that the ICC has rejected several
applications already by groups seeking official recognition as clubs.
The following is a partial list of the rejections:
1. The Watergate Clubformed by renegade Young Republicans,
they were refused recognition because of a 13V2 minute gap on their
application form. When asked their objectives, they "couldn't

recall."
a single
2. The Psychology Clubthey proposed meeting not in
building, but in a complex. Their budget request of $45 for each
50-mlnute session caused their collapse.
3. The Clairvoyance Cluba strange case: when questioned by the
outline
finance committee as to why the club's proposed budget
Dimly
expenditures were only up till March 7, club advisor Seymour
trillions
of
explode
would
into
on
date
the
sun
that
that
replied
pieces, vaporing the solar system and making any fund after that
an
date for his club, or any other campus club he pointed out, only

academic question.
The Clairvoyance Club was finally approved, but the club disbanded due to unforeseen circumstances.

Calendar: Kauffman

TOMORROW
Harvey Kauffman, president of
Harvey Kauffman and Associates,
Advertising, will speak to the publicity and public relations classes in
Science Bungalow 103. The talk is
open to all interested students.
MECHA is holding an EOF
presentation and one dealing with
Bakke in the cafeteria Board Room
from 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. High school
students will attend. There will also
be a Teatro Aguila and a singer and
guitarist in the Amphitheater from

11 a.m. to noon.
Hillel will have an information
table in the free-speech area at 11
a.m.

The Associated Student Body

Commission will meet in the cafeteria board room at 3 p.m.
SMC's Greenhouse will sponsor a
plant sale beginning at 11:15 a.m.
SATURDAY
"Sismos" will perform at a
dance sponsored by MECHA in the
cafeteria from 8 p.m. to 12:30 p.m.
This dance is part of the Cinco de
Mayo observance week sponsored
by MECHA. The Cinco de Mayo
Queen will be announced at the
dance.
As a finale to the Cinco de Mayo
observance, there will be a special
concert :in the Amphitheater from
noon to 1 p.m., a Teatro Aguila

performance from 1 to 2 p.m., a car

show from 2 to 3 p.m. in the Little
Theatre parking lot and an event
for children of all ages from 3 to 4
p.m.
The Theater Guild will present
"Dirty Ferdie Comes Clean" in the
Little Theatre at 10:30 a.m. and
again at 2:30 p.m.
MONDAY
Interclub Council will meet in
the cafeteria board room at 3 p.m.
Loyola-Marymount University
will present Pablo Cruise in concert
in the gym. Tickets are $3.50 in
advance and $4.50 at the door. For
information call 642-2896.
Culver Ice Rink, located at 4545
Sepulveda Blvd., will sponsor a college night at the rink. Admission is
$2.50 and group rates are available.
For more information call 398-5718.
TUESDAY
Dance Club will sponsor a bake
sale in the Little Theatre patio.
The Associated Students Assembly will meet in the cafeteria board
room at 3 p.m.
Louis De Armond of Cal State
L.A. will speak on MexicanAmerican Relations in Science 175
from 11 a.m. to noon.

will present a
slide presentation about Saudi Arabia at 11 a.m. in Humanities 152.
Alpha Mu Gamma

'Dirty Ferdie' Is Funny

Good, Clean Show

BY ALISA NOBLIN
Corsair Contributor
"Dirty Ferdie Comes Clean," a
play by Michael Groob and Paul
Morse is good clean fun. The show
Editor:
soap opera
Will the Real Superintendent is billed as a children's
out there were many persons more
Moore Stand Up?
than 18 years of age in the auWe were astonished at Superin-

Editor

tendent Moore's assertion in the

recent issue of the Corsair that the

"quality of teaching" would be improved by a decrease in the number

of part-time instructors. Is it possiwas

ble that he was misquoted or
his recent commendation of parttime instructors made to the board
on Jan. 16 merely political rhetoric?
On that same day when faculty
evaluations of Superintendent
Moore were submitted to the board

of trustees, he was quoted as saying

"The Part-Time Faculty is held in
high esteem for its professionalism.
Could it be that Superintendent
Moore's opinions fluctuate according to the nature of the "Recommendations" he is supporting?
Rose B. Drummond
Editor's Note: Dr. Moore was not
"

misquoted.

Editor:
I wish to apologize to those who
were at the Jarvis-Gann Initiative
debate. After sneering at a couple of
the long winded, off-the-point, nonquestions, I got up and did exactly
the same thing.
I believe the format of the debate
was a good start (thanks to Kevin
Dawson and Kathy Eckart) but as a
participating audience we generally were idiots.
Let's stage this type of debate
forum regularly. We need the practice.
Ronn S. Pickard
Editor:
I bought a dish of corn at the
cafeteria last week for 45 cents.
Now all I want to say is that if the
English department, and the
science department, and all the
other academic departments served
courses as tasteless as this corn,
then, they, too, might show a hefty
profit.
Morris Grudin

dience.
The play concerns a little boy
named Ferdie who never wants to
be clean. This is hard because he
lives in Soapville USA and has a
mother who always reminds him to
bath and change his underwear.
What happens is that Ferdie
bumps his head, enters into a
"Wizard of Oz" type dream, meets
many strange characters, learns the
virtues of cleanliness and that good
always triumphs over evil. This is
the simple theme behind the play
and it is carried off well.
The dialog is quick and simplisticly witty. There are a few lines
that the children under the age of
10 did not understand but this
aspect of the performance did not
seem to detract from their enjoyment of the show.
The music and songs are excellent and added to the play immensely.

Ferdie, played by Charles Lacy,

the bewildered little boy who is
dragged to the Castle Disease on the
Island of Dirt, acts just a little too
confused to be believable.
He tends to act like he's bewildered about what he is doing on the
stage. But that is alright, no children will notice that detail.
Muck, played by Val Baden, and
Mire, portrayed by Ric Burgess,
were two of the characters whom
Dirtie Ferdie met during his dream.
As a twosome they are great. Of
course, they are never seen apart.
Muck, a germ with a New York
accent, is an unusual character and
Ms. Baden creates it well. Burgess
also does well in his creation of the
hoodlum-type germ, Mire. It is too
bad that Burgess' character could
not have had an accent, it would
have given a better balance to the
partnership.
Then there is Gesundeit as portrayed by Stan Kurtenbach. This

character is lovable. He is a combination of Frankenstein's monster

and a puppy. He is stiff legged,
clumsy and, yet, always eager to

please.

This production is a special treat

because one of the co-authors, Paul
Morse, is a student at Santa Monica
College. He plays Larry the
Laundrybag.

The show is supposed to be a

children's soap opera and as such
must deal in keeping young children occupied. This is accomplished
by bringing the audience into the
action of the play. The actors come
down off the stage and get the audience involved in the production.
Kenny Michelson's direction is
good. He tries to keep the interaction between the audience and the
cast as close as possible. Costumes
are by Bianca Biscayart and Linada Patterson.
"Dirty Ferdie Comes Clean" will
be shown on Saturday at 10:15 a.m.
and 2 p.m. Admission is $1 and
children under the age of five are
admitted free.

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MAY I, 1978

THE CORSAIR

Learning Resource Center: People Helping People

BY CRAIG V. MARTIN
Corsair

Staff Writer

At first glance, one would think

that machines operate the Learning
Resource Center, but a closer look
reveals that the LRC is supported
by a diversified group of persons.
Each month more than 8,000
students step into the center, which
is located in the basement of the
cafeteria.
About 110 machines are available
to aid in the learning process, including video tape players, speed
reading machines, tape recorders,
typewriters, slide projectors and
adding machines.
These machines help, but the
more than 75 tutors, technicians,
advisers, counselors and instructors
provide the individualized assistance.

One student witnessed this with

positive results when he wrote a
letter to the makers of Lowen Brau
beer complaining about a bad tasting bottle of beer. The company
responded with an apology and a
case of beer.
A former instructor of English 21,

Ms. Kurilich says that she found

that some students were just incapable of passing that course.
She then started working as a
technician in the LRC and discovered the need for individualized
assistance for students at all levels
of reading and writing ability.
Another instructor of basic English skills. Suzanne Sckula, says she
"likes teaching in the LRC because
there are various challenges that
one faces when working with many
different individuals.

Dr. William Cassell, director of

"It takes a great deal of time to
the LRC, explains, "Our program
to know people and discover
get
and equipment are useful, but there
where they need help," she says.
is a need for human contact and
Ms. Sekula explains the limitareinforcement. We are in the people
tions of her position.
business."
"I'm not playing the savior role,"
And LRC is by no means a haven
she says. "The LRC doesn't give
for "dumb bells," Cassell says.
students talentswe work with
"We have calculus students
their potential and help them to
studying next to basic math
develop
it."
students," says Cassell. "Our
Ms. Sekula, who received her
program is developmental. We take
master's degree in English at
people as far as they want to go."
UCLA, once attended a four-year
Scholastic development is just
college "run by nuns" in Chicago.
one of the benefits of using the LRC.
But it also incorporates more pracAnn McGinty, another instructor
tical matters.
available at the center for special
"We just purchased a teaching
help, also finds her job "a chalprogram developed by a team of
lenge."
psychologists that helps students
Ms. McGinty says she likes "inmake use of basic skills in everyday
teracting with students on a onesituations," Cassell says.
to-one and small-group basis."
This new instructional device,
Ms. McGinty says she heard
called the "Think Program," is a
series of books designed, through about her job as learning disability
progressively more difficult mental
instructor while working on her
doctorate's degree in special educaexercises, to teach students to use
tion and developmental psychology
their minds.
at UCLA. She says she hopes to
Frances Kurilich, instructor, uses
complete that degree this summer.
the program both on an individual
She says she first became interand on a group basis in her reading
ested in special education when she
and writing skills class, English 81.
taught second grade in PennsylvanAccording to Cassell, "English is ia. Fascinated with students who
a means of communicating with the couldn't read, Ms. McGinty wonreal world," and English 81 dered how she could best teach
students work on writing skills usthem.
ing direct communication.
She now has a total of 60 students

whom she often instructs in groups

of five or less.
A newly hired technician, Harry
Redd, was in the center on the work
study program last semester on a
part-time basis.
Now Redd spends 40 hours every
week at the center "constantly
doing different things."
He says, "I like my job because it
keeps

George Wong, a tutor at LRC

wjth the work study program, says,

"Certain students need constant

care when they come for help."
And care is what they'll get from
the various types of tutors.
Since the center opened in the
fall of 1972, the tutoring program
has expanded from five or six tutors
to between 50 and 60 tutors.
Half of the tutors are paid
through the college work study
program, and must be approved by
faculty members in the tutor's field,
before being hired.

HUNG-MANH HOANG

savs

Hung,

"so that the communists

RSVP GIVES TlMEStudent Irena Kozik gets advice from playwrite

Gene Stone, who tutors English in the LRC.

The other half of the tutors are

paid for through EOPS.

Still other tutors volunteer their
time, such as the RSVP, the Retired
Senior Volunteer Program, and Alpha Gamma Sigma, the honor
society on campus.
Students use the LRC for different reasons, either to make use of
the free electric typewriters, practice shorthand dictation, or learn a
new language.
One such student is Norwegian
born Perry Trifunovich, who
spends his free time in the LRC
learning German because he wants
to live in Germany and play professional soccer someday.

Math Tutor
Hung-Manh Hoang, 23, Learning
Resource Center math tutor, escaped Vietnam on April 30, 1975,
the day on which his country surrendered to the communists.
When Hung and his family of
seven fled their country, they left on
a Vietnamese naval war ship with
hundreds of other refugees. "We
left on the last boat," says Hung,
"other boats left in the harbor weren't operational, but people were
frantically climbing aboard them
expecting to leave.
"We were all hiding below deck,"

me busy."

But, Redd admits, working in the

LRC requires a great deal of
patience. "Some people expect you
to do everything short of taking
their tests for them," he says.
In one instance, a student with an
hour left to write a term paper
threw his notes on Redd's desk and
demanded that Redd type it for
him.
Redd has a philosophy to deal
with situations like that.
"It's important to have a good
attitude when working with people
because if you don't, it shows," he
says.

--

SHAKING IDEASHead of learning disabilities Ann McEntie and tutor

(Photos By Pam Kleinberg)
Susan Inislund go over weekly schedule.

Refugee Now Aids In LRC

wouldn't stop us from leaving. Our

ship was also flying a white flag."
Hung believes that they made it
out of the Saigon Harbor without
being stopped, because "the communists were to busy celebrating
their take-over of South Vietnam."
After two days of traveling without food or water in a boat that had
only one functioning engine, they
were intercepted by a U.S. aircraft
carrier and transferred to that ship.
The U.S. Navy sunk the Vietnamese vessel and carried the passengers to the Philipines. "We spent
two days there and were trans-

ferred to Guam," says Hung.

On Guam the refugees lived in
Quanset huts and tent cities virtually erected overnight by U.S. soldiers and sailors.
Ironically, the refugees were
camped on an island which U.S.
B-52's used for high-altitude bombing runs over Southeast Asia.
From Guam, Hung and his family were transported to a refugee
center in Camp Pendleton, California, where they awaited American
sponsorship for two months.
St. Augustine Church of Culver
City sponsored Hung's family by

finding them

an apartment and

jobs.
During the day Hung worked for
a photographic chemical company,
and at night he attended night
classes at Santa Monica College.
After two semesters of night
school, Hung became a full-time
student and got a job as a tutor in

the LRC.
Hung, who is an engineering
major, finds his job rewarding
because he says, "I like to help
students whenever they are stuck
with a math problem." Craig V.

Martin

Students Learn At UCLA

Therapists Offer Breath Of Life

BY CHRIS RAUEN
Corsair Staff Writer
For anyone interested in a career
in the health area, Santa Monica
College offers a curriculum in
respiration therapy that virtually
guarantees employment upon completion of the program.
Respiration therapy is essentially
the use of specific techniques to aid
those patients who suffer from ailments associated with respiration.

These disorders range from the

newborn baby with immature lungs
to chronic diseases that most often
strike the elderly.
The curriculum itself is a two
year program offered in conjunction with the UCLA Hospital. The
first two semesters consist of
courses taken at SMC, where the
general education requirements for
the Associate of Arts degree and the
necessary science classes for respiration therapy background are completed.
Respiration Therapy 1 is offered
at this time, which gives an introductory explanation and an over-

view of the field.

Upon completion of the first two
semesters, 20 students are selected
to complete the program. The scene
then shifts to UCLA Hospital,
beginning with a ten-week summer

session.
At the hospital, the student, in
effect, becomes an employee of
UCLA without salary.
The final two semesters consist
solely of respiration therapy
courses. These are half lecturehalf lab classes keeping the
student occupied for about 30 hours
every week. The specific topics the
student must master, at this time,

are lung functioning, pulmonary

physiology and the use of mechanical equipment in treatment of
respiratory diseases.
The final ten weeks of the
program are devoted to clinical
practice that prepares the students
to move right into the field.
There are two main instructors

involved with the program. Melvin

Welch is the program director and
a graduate of the SMC program. He

spends most of his time at the

UCLA Hospital. Jon Thorsen is the

clinical co-ordinator, who teaches

Respiration Therapy 1 at SMC as
well as instructing second year
students.
There also is a written and an
oral examination the students may
take to receive professional recognition in the field. By passing these
exams, a student becomes nationally certified by the National Board
of Respiratory Therapy and can
thereby perform his service in any
area of the country.
There is presently a shortage of
qualified therapists. In Southern
California the average starting
wage in a respiratory therapy job is
$1,150 a month. There is the psychic
bonus of knowing that there is a job
waiting upon completion of the
necessary training as well.
Potential candidates for the
program may arrange an appointment with Melvin Welch through
the Health Occupation Office to
find more specific details.

TAKE A BREATHERRespiratory program director Melvin Welch

gives lessons on mechanical breathing to SMC student playing role of
(Photo By Bob Godwin)
patient.

MAY I, 1978

THE CORSAIR

Menzhuber: Keeping Up With The Big Guys

BY DENNIS SCHROEDEB
Corsair Staff Contributor

Chuck Menzhuber is offensive.

Now, don't take that wrong. He

has yet to be told that his deodorant
doesn't work or the Scope isn't
doing the trick and if he swears, it
must be under his breath.
But what can you say about a
baseball player who has stolen 36
bases and hits .340 after a slump
that took him down to .309 and runs
60 yards in 6.4 seconds?
What most persons see about
Menzhuber comes in a blur. With
cat-like quickness, the Corsairs'
leadoff switchhitter has become one
of the most prominent and respected baseball players in the Southern
California Conference.
At 5-10, the 20-year old sophomore Menzhuber has grown somewhat more impressive physically
than his younger playing days
when he relied on his speed and bat
to make it with the bigger boys.
"I've always played with the older guys," he says. "The basic thing
is to remember that no matter how
good you are, you are going to do
some things wrong.
"The key is to know that you're
going to do the job. It determines
how long you remain in slumps."
By looking at his record, it would

be easy to follow his advice. By far,

Chuck Menzhuber is an all around
athlete.
At Culver City High School, he
lettered in three sportsbasketball,
football and baseball.
As quarterback, placekicker and
safety for the Centaurs at Culver, he
was voted all-CIF in his senior year
and the Ocean League's most
valuable player, awards that his

teammate the year before, Ernie

Saenz, had grabbed.

In his junior year he became

second in CIF history in interceptions with 12.
As playmaker and guard in basketball his junior year, Menzhuber
teamed with Pete Aronchick,
former SMC star and current UC
Santa Barbara center, to lead the
Centaurs to the finals at the Los
Angeles Sports Arena.
"Some people say that football is
my best sport," he says.
Yet baseball won his heart. At a
level of competition where talent is
measured against the rest of the
state, teammate Mike Tennant says
Menzhuber is one of the best.
Being one of the best means
noticed by both major colleges and
the pro scouts.
"I would like to sign but I think

I'll end up going to college," he

says. "Either way just as long as I
end up in baseball.
"Eventually, when my career is
over, whenever that is, I'd like to
coach. I really enjoy helping the
other guys on the team out. Just the
other day, Billy Wilson came up to
me and asked me if I could help
him on stealing bases so we went
out and worked on it. I really enjoyed that."
Menzhuber has taken an early
start. He missed most of the fall
workouts because of assistant
coaching duties with Culver City's
football team, a squad that eventually landed in the playoffs.
Coaching wouldn't seem to fit
him. He is quiet both on and off the
field. While competing, he is a
study in concentration. He removes
himself somewhat from the rest of
the team before games to increase
that competitive spirit.
Some of that time is spent conversing with his father who attends
each game.
"My father taught me everything
I know. He's probably got more
confidence in me than I do. He's the
reason I'm where I am today."
The senior Menzhuber is less
quiet than his son and has been
known to enjoy an occasional vocal

Coed Up For Rams Cheerleader

BY PHIL SANDOVAL
Corsair Staff Writer

If it was Las Vegas and you

owned a casino you would have
liked the odds going in. More than
one of
800 girls were competing for
the 28 spots open on the new Los
Angeles Rams cheerleading
squadthe chances were slim at

best.

In that field of 800, five young

women from Santa Monica College

went to the Coliseum the first day of

the tryouts.
After making the initial pass in

front of the panal of celebrity

judges, which included Wilt Chamberlain, Dwight Stones, Jim Hill
and John Sevarino of KABC-TV,
three of the women from SMC were
eliminated.
Gone from the original group of
five SMC coeds were Lisa Mann,
Marchella Thompson, and Sandy
Wolshin, all members of the present
cheerleading squad at the college.

"I thought it would be interesting," said Miss Mann. "I wanted to

do it because I've been a cheerleader for so long," added Ms. Wolshin.
Both women noted that making the
squad would have been a good opportunity for them.
Called back

were

the following day

and Myra

Tammy Kemp

Reyes.

Both girls went before the judges

once more, this time for a longer
look.
At the end of the day, which went
on for more than six hours, the field
of 200 women was narrowed to 60
competitors.

MYRA REYES

One SMC student was left in that

group of 60 personsMiss Reyes.
A graduate of St. Bernard High
School and former cheerleader in
high school during her senior year,
Miss Reyes noted that she, "Just
saw it in the paper, it looked like
fun," and that is why she was tried
out.

Currently a business major at

SMC, the 22-year-old brunette performed her individual dance routine at the KIIS Theater on the
Universal Studios lot, along with
the other remaining competitors.
Performing to the music of the
Bee Gees "Saturday Night Fever"
Miss Reyes said, "I was really nervous, I've never been so nervous in
my life."

When asked what influenced her

decision to tryout Miss Reyes said,
"I always wanted to be a cheerleader," showing that her interest in the
sport had never left. However, with
the amount of dancing rather than
leading cheers Miss Reyes added,
"It might be a different type of
cheerleading, it may be more like
songleading."
Surviving another six-hour ordeal in the auditorium, which was
filled with members of the print
and visual media, Miss Reyes was
left amongst the group of 39
women.
Finally, in a repeat performance
last Wednesday night at Universal,
the girls were called in for what
appeared to be the final decision.
From the group of 39, 11 girls
will be cut to bring down the group
to 28 members, 20 of those to per-

form at the individual Ram games

with the remaining eight to act as
alternates. The finalists will be announced at a press conference, May
13, at the Coliseum.

Barbara and USC had all expressed

an interest in his future.
"Schools like Arizona and USC
wait till after the draft to pick, so
I'll probably wait too," he says.
He leans more towards Santa
Barbara or Arizona due to his
desire to join teammates Tennant
and Ken Corzell in their transfers.
"Arizona is looking for both an
infielder and an outfielder so Mike
and I qualify there (Tennant plays
shortstop, Menzhuber centerfield
and short). I don't know whether
I'm going to play infield or outfield
in college. I don't really care. I just
want to steal bases," he says.
Most observers say that he'll succeed at whatever he decides to do.
And chances are very slim that he'll
do anything outside of athletics.
After all, in true athlete fashion,
he says, "Sports is my life."

scrap with umpires from the

bleachers when he's in disagreement with on-the-field decisions.
Unlike the reputation that most
ballplayers try to live up to, Menzhuber doesn't seek the partying
nightlife that follows games and
practices. Rather he prefers to stay
with sports after hours too.
"I bowl a lot. I'd like to get into
bowling a lot more. I've got a 180
average.

"During the summer, I play in

beach volleyball tournaments. I
really enjoy that. It keeps you in
shape. This year I think I'll be playing with Joey Mica some. (Mica is a
currently red-shirted All-American
volleyball player from UCLA.)
He'll not only be playing volleyball this summer but will also be
deciding his next move in school.
Arizona, San Diego State, Santa

Women's

Swimming

Santa Monica College's women's swim team has sent seven

in Fresno.
Laurie Aragon, Carolyn Arnett, Patty Brouwer, Kathy Fennema,
Jill Whiteaker, Karen Worden and Mindy Clark have qualified for

women to compete in the state championships

the meet.

According to Coach Virginia Wilson, SMC did well in the

Southern California Championships last week. Twenty-four community colleges from Southern California competed and the Corsairs
took fifth place behind Ventura, Cypress, Pasadena and Grossmont.
was in the
Ms. Aragon took the only first place finish which
50-yard breaststroke in 33.5.

Jog-A-Thon Planned
BY LYNN WASHINGTON
Corsair Staff Writer
"The Santa Monica College
women's tennis team is the best one
anybody has seen in a long time at
any community college," said
Coach Dorothy Bogdanoff.
The women have various styles of

games which make for top caliber

performances.
Cori Colbert plays number one
for the Netters and has not given up
her position to any other challenger. Ms. Colbert is ranked junior
player and has many years in tournament experience.
"Nicki Fischer plays number two
for the team. This position has been
a highly contended spot this year.
Ms. Fischer's strength lies in her

will to win. When she puts her mind

to it nothing stops her," said Ms.
Bogdanoff.

"Debbie Carnochan plays the

number three spot on the team and
is a very competitive contender,"
said Ms. Bogdanoff. "Ms. Carnochan participates in various sports,
which can be seen easily in her
skillful manner of play."
Ingrid Stephenson plays the
number four spot, however started
the season at the number two spot.
Ms. Stephenson has only played
tennis for one year, but has the
makings of a long time contender,
according to Ms. Bogdanoff. and

just might work her way back to

her starting spot by the end of the
season. Stephenson's only real
problem is that she tries too hard.
Hilary Wilson is the number five
player on the team. Ms. Wilson has
played tennis most of her life and
has had good quality tennis experience and has fit in time for professional lessons. Her mother, Coach
Virginia Wilson, is the woman's
varsity swim coach for SMC, and is
also a fine tennis player.
Wanda Mcintosh plays number
six on the team and along with
Wendy Kissack has contended and
played number five on the team at
various times. According to Ms.
Bogdanoff, Ms. Mcintosh is a very
competitive player and loves to win
and adds that she is a very aggressive strocker and hits spectacular
shots that win her the big points.
"Ms. Kissack has an easy going
personality and enjoys herself while
playing, more than any other
player on the team," said the Coach
Ms. Kissack's only dissapointing
factor is that her Western grip
makes her play harder than she has

to.
Tina Halushka plays the number
eight spot on the team. Her only
weakness, according to Ms. Bogdanoff, is the lack of watching the
ball with total concentration.

Coed Badminton On Its Way To Number One

BY VICTOR RAMOS
Corsair Sports

Writer

After taking the number two spot

in the country in football and in
forensics, Santa Monica College can
finally claim a number one spot in
the state and possibly the country,
in the badminton team.
The Corsairs are undefeated
through 17 matches this year and
Southern Conference champions,
coming off victories against Golden
West and Rio Hondo College last
week.
SMC will start the conference
tournament Thursday and Friday
at Golden West College, trying to
qualify for the state meet.
Coach Maggie LeDuc credits the
success of the team to the amount of
depth they have.

"The kids are working hard and

they improved over last year," said
Ms. LeDuc. "We practice five days a
week and we take it seriously and
put a lot of effort into our work.
We're good because we work hard,"
she added.
Although the Corsairs are rated
number one in the state, Ms. LeDuc
says that the team is probably the

best in the country.

"The best badminton is in Southern California. There's not much
badminton in other parts of the
country, so if your the best in California you're probably the best in
the United States," said Ms. LeDuc.
As the Corsairs go into the conference tournament, Ms. LeDuc
says a problem that might arise will
be with the men.
"The men will have it harder
because of the lack of experience
they have had before coming to
SMC, but they will do well," said
Ms. LeDuc.
Ms. LeDuc is not counting heavily on one particular person to carry
all the load for the Corsairs.
"SMC is depending on winning as
a team," she said. "We're counting
on every match for the conference
tourney. Each match counts for a
point and the team with the most
points wins the conference and goes
to state," Ms. LeDuc added.
Sould the Corsairs advance to
state, Ms. LeDuc looks for Long
Beach City, Bakersfield, Orange
Coast and Cerritos College to be the
toughest competition because they
have ranked players.

CALIFORNIA'S BESTSMC's badminton team (top row, from left), Louie Prince, Salim Jamal, Steve
Hosohama, Maggie LeDuc (coach), Phil Linthicum, Richard Sorensen and Scott Taylor. Middle row from
left, Susie Shimpo, assistant manager, Don Froehlich, Jean Paquette, Martha Smith, Ron Froehlich,
Patty Thomas,
Cheryl Alexander, Julia Arjo and Betsy Follette, team manager. Bottom row, from left
Marta Becerra, Brenda King and Becy Cleaveland.